Kamran Ince

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Kamran Ince

Biography

Kamran Ince (b. 6 May 1960, Glendive, Mt.) is an American composer.

Born to American and Turkish parents, Dr. Ince holds a doctorate from Eastman School of Music, and currently serves as professor of composition at University of Memphis and at MIAM (Center for Advanced Research in Music) at the Istanbul Technical University.

Kamran Ince's music, from a Turkish / American composer, bridges Anatolia and Balkans to the West. The energy and rawness of Turkish and Balkan folk music, the spirituality of Byzantium and Ottoman court music, the tradition of European art music and the extravert and popular qualities of the American psyche are the base of his sound world. These ingredients happily breathe in cohesion, and they spin the linear and vertical contrasts so essential to his music forward.

His numerous prizes include the Prix de Rome, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lili Boulanger Prize, and the Arts and Letters Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His Waves of Talya was named one of the best chamber works of the 20th Century by a living composer in the Chamber Music Magazine.

Ince's works are performed by such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Prague Symphony Orchestra, and such ensembles as the Netherlands Blazers Ensemble, Chanticleer Choir, and the Los Angeles Piano Quartet. Concerts devoted to his music have recently been heard at the Holland Festival, CBC Encounter Series (Toronto), the Istanbul International Music Festival, Estoril Festival (Lisbon), TurkFest (London), and Cultural Influences in Globalization Festival (Ho Chi Minh City). In addition to symphonic and chamber works, his catalogue also includes music for film and ballet. Commissions he has received include those from Ford Foundation, Fromm Foundation, Koussevitzky Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Reader’s Digest and Pew Charitable Trust. His latest projects include Songs with Other Words (2014) (recomposing of selected movements from Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words) for Spark and Schleswig-Holstein Festival; and Abandoned (2014), a dramatic work (mini opera) for Opera Memphis' Ghosts of Crosstown Project.


Works for Winds


Resources

  • Kamran Ince website Accessed 16 November 2016
  • Kennesaw State University Wind Ensemble concert program, 17 March 2016